The Empress of Albion, has defeated her older siblings in a ruthless civil war, bringing the once omnipotent and corrupt aristocracy under her heel and paving the way for the revitalization of a downtrodden peasant class. However, not everyone is as eager for peace as her, and jealous foreign powers and unsettled domestic nobles once more fan the flames of civil war. Set to the backdrop of a country torn asunder, the Lord Protector of the Empire, laid low from his lofty position by treachery and saved by the workings of something more, fights to save the last hope of a land on the brink of destruction. Writeathon entry.